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To the farmers in Enshi, Hubei, there is nothing better than big ones. The solar terms of the year are like heaven's music compositions, and must be followed by tempo to obtain the gift of God. Ouchang Wen concerned about the sweet potato after the fall, Lu Xianfeng care about the new tea before the Qingming, Deng Jiamin looking forward to adequate rainfall, so her family's cattle have a lush meadow.

But I hope that after all, hope, everything depends on the day.

Predecessors left behind on the weather of agricultural proverbs, are now outdated, and life experience tells them that the weather forecast more and more trustworthy. Storm clouds series of large formations in their overhead space, day and night non-stop rotation around to collect China's more than 13 million square kilometers of land and sea meteorological data.

Enshi's peasants naturally benefited as well, except that the vast majority of them did not know that Enshi was still the rocket-dropping area of ​​the Taiyuan satellite center. Public reports show that in 10 years, the rocket fairing fell into Enshi village 7 times, and some fell directly on residential areas.

As the ever-changing weather becomes foreseeable, the wreckage of heaven, their uncharted dangers, is as elusive as the wind.

The rocket fairing weighs hundreds of kilos and even tons of tablets, dropping freely in excess of the speed of the sound, changing direction with a fickle airstream. In the mid-air, they roar, the moment the impact of the ground caused an earthquake.

Ouchang Wen sty wall cracked a piece; Deng Jiamin home backyard wooden house was smashed directly into the ground; another Deng family members beam was smashed, the house less a corner; there is a fall in the jungle The fairing cut off five as thick as the waist of miscellaneous wood.

The iron knots falling from the sky with some mysterious properties, after all, satellites, rockets and other terminology from the villagers life is too far away. This allows seniors to think of the U.S. aircraft that crashed during the war of resistance against Japan. The war veterans remembered the actual exercise so that the people in the vicinity of Chongqing could think of the Wenchuan earthquake. Some thought it was a gas explosion, Dog barking, doll crying, lingering fear.

Almost all villagers have such a consensus that anything falling from the sky is life, and as with farming, there is a need to see the sky. Instead, the villagers who live near the drop sites receive the sooner congratulations on their deathbed. They are considered as "lucky people." But no one can guarantee that the next lucky day will come along with the wreckage.

Heaven

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209 National Road through the nanmu Yuancun, along the road is almost the same exterior three-story house, white wall Daiwa, the roof clouds auspicious clouds, the window edge of a minority-style yellow wood carving. One of the owners of the house called Ouchang Wen. The interior of these mansions is not as modern as the exterior and has no sewers. The kitchen table is less than 3 meters behind the kitchen table, and the septic tank is on the edge of the kitchen. The smell often floats on the table.

The most recent fall occurred in the 30-meter-sweet potato land opposite Ouchang Wenjia. Two months ago, the unspeakable mystery suddenly fell from the sky and fell in the middle of an industrious village outside the door of the Oichang Mancun. No matter what he did, he had to glance over.

It was an open, creamy, conical shell, about the size of his house's pigsty, with brownish-gray interior and three layers of white metal hoops with numbers and letters written in black ink pen.

This piece of 500-pound heavy thing from the "Fengyun III" meteorological satellite, at 2:35 on November 15, 2017 by the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. "Fengyun III" is one of the most spectrally resolved earth observation satellites in China with more than 70 countries and regions downloading its observations for free. Mainstream media issued a document praise, "big country play, the global benefit."

The rocket flew to the 110-kilometer edge of the atmosphere about three minutes after launch, then dismantled the shrouds outside the satellite to reduce weight. Free-fall fairing smashed back to the ground, fell to the south of Enshi City, Nan Mu Park Village, only 19 km from the urban area. A young urban student recorded the feeling at the time: "When it was over, it was sure that the speeding truck hit the gas station and exploded."

This fairing belonged to the C-4 C rocket. Its overall size should be a huge cone with a diameter of 3.8 meters and a 4.1-meter-tall cylinder extending to 10.7 meters. Just half of it's head.

"Look, it's more like a boar's fangs!" Ouchang Wen pointed to the big white guy at his door.

Recalling the night's situation, 62-year-old Ouchang Wen pulled his face, "appalling, live so old, have not heard such a loud voice!" Thought for a long time, he called for example, "like a big rock Hit another big rock. "

The huge shock awakened Ouchang Wen asleep, he found the bed a little bit further away, and the window was shaken and popped. He looked out of the window, someone turned on the lights, and the flashlight shone outward, but the dark, foggy, no movement, someone shouting "is not a car accident ah?" Only the mountain of fuzzy echo. Neighbor Huang Yunmei rely on the sun dried beans on the balcony tilted from the basket, "pops" bouncing one after another, soy beans roll aimlessly, and some across the road, hit the cement along the edge, stopped, All abrupt end.

Ouchang Wen to sleep well, the kind of sharp whistling let him imaginative.

After dawn, Auchangwen opened the window and saw a milky cone with a diameter of two meters. It emerged in the mist, and several muttered villagers stood beside her.

Four or five villagers tried to rip it up and found it hard to find an estimate of 500 pounds.

"Dear! This guy really sink."

"What a fucking fuck?"

"Has the plane exploded?"

They took pictures and sent them to their neighbors. As a result, they learned that the other end of the mountain beam had dropped more than fivefold.

Long overcast rain has just ended, the ground is still a muddy, the villagers Shao Shaxiao shallow foot stepped mud gathered in front of Liu Yongshun cornfield where there is a central fairing wreckage, there are four parking spaces size, Looked from the valley, like a magical iron ship ran aground on the terraces.

Ouchang Wen arrived, there have been forty or fifty people. 78-year-old Liu Yongshun because of deaf ears, voices particularly large, he was awakened at midnight, open the door, but also a quiet, but the house called a white dog overnight. When he found the big guy early in the morning, he ran to the police station and shouted in a breathless voice. "There's an accident, an accident, something in the sky!" He shouted. Half the village knew it.

More thrilling is in the September 1, 2016. Nanmu Park Village to the south of more than ten kilometers of Shengba Township Street, a huge fairing just right down in the middle of residential areas, it has a residential area around the tallest building has seven floors, but it just happens to hit Deng Jiamin and Liu Jinxuan living in the backyard of the old wooden house, it is rare in this area of ​​open space.

That night, Liu Jinxuan heard dozens of seconds thundering "thunder", followed by the sound of the trunk rupture, and then a loud noise, she thought the town's newly opened gas company exploded. After awaking, she also went out to look a lot, did not light outside, did not ring, that is, children have been crying, she cried a few back to the house.

Seven o'clock in the morning, Liu Jinxuan's husband lying in the backyard ready to brush his teeth, looking through the yard of flowers and trees, found in the hospital was stopped Metasequoia, a huge white cone in front of the cross. Where there is a solid pig sty, now gone. Their bed rests on the second floor less than 10 meters away.

This scene so that his toothbrush was thrown to the ground, he called his wife regardless of foam, "Call the police!" Less than ten minutes, Liu alley on the side of the house was crowded crowd, the villagers Starting a cell phone, competing to shoot, like a favorite star.

Ten years, such a fall and onlookers in Enshi are not uncommon. In 2008, the local armed forces department found the rocket fairing from the jungle of Maoba Township in Icheon City; in August 2010, the rocket fairing of "Remote Sensing Satellite No. 10" crashed into Hefeng County; in July 2013, Ping Town, Pai Fung Dam three big fort left behind the fairing loud noise, it was 8 am, the nearby villagers also saw it flying from the sky; the same year, Laifeng fall a fairing; In August 2014, Mufushun Office also crashed a fairing ...

Fortunately, in all the public reports, no casualties were found here. As seventy years ago, on December 25, 1937, the Japanese plane attacked Enshi for the first time. The plane landed at the Lion Rock outside the south gate and the Li Jialu bomb dropped three and landed in wilderness without any casualties.

( Because the vegetable fields are occupied by fairing debris, Liu Jinxuan's neighbors can only plant vegetables to the eaves. )

( Liu Jinxuan husband standing in the backyard memories of the scene of the fall, behind him is the rocket fairing. )

Release life

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The 75-year-old Liu Zu Zhou is a neighbor of Auchangwen, a retired elementary school teacher and a rare cultural man in the village. He always has a pair of glasses in the chest pocket.

Ouchang Wen first thought is to ask him to see if the plane exploded, that's terrible. Some villagers say it has radiation, and some pregnant women stand by the roadside to watch far away.

Liu Zu Zhou looked down, immediately shook his head, the plane will have a lot of debris explosion, there will be signs of burning, when he was young, heard the story of U.S. planes falling Enshi during the war - the spring and summer of 1943, there are two U.S. fighter jets crashed in the Xianfeng White Dam and Gaolushan, with no casualties.

He thought there was a similar situation in Shengjiaba, a neighboring country, last year, but he could not explain why he was in Enshi.

Enshi is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, Wuhan and Chongqing is located in the middle of two big cities, mountains and thin adults. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, it was once the seat of the wartime government of Hubei Province and the headquarters of the 6th Theater Zone.

In the 1960s, the relations between China and the Soviet Union gradually became evil. As the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center built by the Soviet Union was easily approached by the Soviet military because of its proximity to Mongolia, the Chinese military decided to re-establish a new launching center near the Beijing Military Region and evacuate part of the Jiuquan Function, to retain the strategic space for retreat, and the wreck area but also to avoid Wuhan, Zhengzhou and other large cities in Central China, and ultimately located in Taiyuan, off the area fixed in eastern Chongqing mountains and Enshi.

( The shrouds in the mountains in the eastern part of Chongqing were converted into canopies by villagers and users joked that they were the most expensive canopy in the world. )

The events of these countries are far away from ordinary people's lives, even if they are cultural people in the village.

Deng Jiamin, a villager at Shengjiaba, was not sure what the huge wreckage in the backyard belonged to. The satellite was Highscore No. 10. It was a precision remote sensing satellite and it failed to launch. She only remembered the morning after the fall, neither her home nor her neighbor's kitchen in Liu Jinxuan set fire, and the rest of her life filled the hunger.

They urgently need a statement to ease its impact on calm life.

The villagers told Deng Jiacin that another fairing landed almost at the same time smashed the car beam of the villagers in Cheliao Dam, who was also named Deng, but no one was injured. "Your name is Deng's life so big!" Deng Jiamin some dumbfounding.

Police and township cadres then arrived. They cordoned off warning lines in the backyard and put up a sign "dangerous here and forbidden to stay." They told Deng and Liu that the government had previously received notice from superiors that the outside world Visitors, do not panic, the next step will be in accordance with the program execution, and then left.

However, Tang Jiamin saw that the fairing on the palpitation, Liu is not brushing their teeth in the backyard, those who planted in the backyard of the flowers are no longer someone care.

A few days later, Deng Jiamin figured out she summed it up in a family dinner, "human life is generated."

She was 18 years old riding a motorcycle accident, three people were seriously injured peers, only her intact; 35-year-old to Wuhan wholesale clothing, sleeper crashed into the trailer, she climbed out from the glass slag, a little wound, next to The driver is seriously injured. "So die immortal, hurt not hurt, have faith, not to mention this is something falling in the sky."

Deng's mother thought it was a fortune for the old house over a hundred years ago. Thirty years ago, Deng Jiamin was still young, mistakenly kerosene lamp lit the clothes, causing arson, she said a bucket of water poured out. A dozen years ago, the poor electric furnace wire in his home caused a fire. She cut off the power cord in one go and did not know where it was so brave. "I dare say that there is not a wood house not afraid of fire." Deng mother somewhat proud, "You say our family is not very good life?"

( Deng Jiamin's mother opens the back door of the kitchen and leads the visitors to visit. )

Liu Jinxuan home under the same roof do not think so. The owner of the house turned out to be the landlords in the town. The only man in the town to wear rubber shoes during the Republican Period was hegemonist. He stipulated that the highest house in the town would have to be a foot shorter than his house. As a result, by 1950, He was shot by the Land Reform Working Group, the house was confiscated, became a supply and marketing cooperatives and food control. Ten years later, Liu Jinxuan's house was approached by the government due to its close proximity to the town. Liu said he expects the house to be generous. As a result, the original lot is now the most prosperous commercial street. "Otherwise, House worth! "Move the wrong home, and now almost hit by the fairing, Liu Jinxuan feel their own luck is real.

Afterwards, they all planned to ask God for worship in the temple, but all the temples in the town were completely destroyed when the temple was broken and no reconstruction was carried out. They had to give up.

Ouchang Wen is also a letter of life, his face thin and long, deep wrinkles, like folding a lot of life is not easy. He always plays with children's fans singing and dancing, he had a good voice that year, and now looks like Chi Kung.

Forty-five years ago, he went to repair the dam after graduating from junior high school. Because of the telegraph broken by the engineering team, he did not receive any information - he should have been accepted by the Arts Troupe. When he was a Beijing Opera exam, he was the only one out of school in his school. He needs this, he thinks this is his life.

"So what happened (referring to the rocket fairing falling to the door of the house), what would you do if you did not think so?" He asked.

In Nanmu Yuancun, there was a bungalow not far from where the fairing crashed. There lived Deng Wenqun, a mentally ill patient. He harassed women and occasionally smoked chicken and looting clothes that the villagers were drying to burn on the spot. 10 years ago, because of a dispute, he cut his cousin with a hatchet. He was mentally handicapped and let go. Afraid of him in the village to make trouble, he was in the field to build the house.

He is not welcome.

The fairing that fell off happened to be just as big as the house. "You see, it's the hardest life!" Said Huang Zhaobin, a villager mowing the ground. "He did not pay enough to kill, indicating that God will not let him die." So even if only a few meters apart, this fairing will not hit him.

( Corn stalks incineration is fairing in front of Liu Yongshun landing point, not far from the white house Deng Wenqun mental patients. )

My people are good at speaking

Compared with his life, Tianzhu Zhou, an artist at Nanmu Park, prefers to believe that this is the result of remote control technology. Otherwise, the two fairings will fall down and there will be houses and dense high-voltage lines around the viaduct. Why did not one hit? In these years, Shili Ba Township, there are many of the same situation, how no one was injured? Science is so advanced, how can make this mistake?

Ou Changwen said to the interviewees following Liu Zu Zhou's tone, then patted each other's arm: "This is science, science!"

The "cadres of the armed forces" rushed to the scene also made some explanations and intensified the opinions of Ouchang Wen. The cadres told them everything was under control, saying that they would stretch the mud on the shoes.

"What if you have to hit it?" There are young villagers asked with a lot of fear.

"Then, it shows that this machine does not work!"

"Official cadres" continue to say that if the house is broken, the state will compensate for the loss; people will have deaths and injuries and the families should be taken care of by the state. Ouchang Wen also think about it, "This is definitely a rich unit, not bad money."

Can not fall in the city, but also fall where someone knows, or can not find Well, so fell on us. Liu Zu Zhou Ouchang Wen told. Ouchang Wen felt justified, he also found in the middle of the night crashed reason, "If the daytime, would not scary people?"

Before the departure of "cadres of organs", Liu Yongshun, the host of the cornfield, was confronted with before the public. This is state property. He has the responsibility of guarding the country well and does not allow anyone to move.

Liu Yongshun bear in mind, he was worried about deafness, fairing at night insecurity, to his white dog tied a big bell, a little movement, the white dog with a bell in the valley Mercedes-Benz, far heard.

At the beginning of December, a large crane was coming in Enshi city, and the fairing was recycled. At first the workers attempted to break it with a big hammer and splashed Mars. There was no alternative but to cut it into pieces by gas welding. Liu Yongshun out of a day to help, the leader gave him 2,000 yuan in cash. Liu Zu Zhou 揶 揄 him: "This sky is not empty space junk, not only lifeless, or worth 2000 pie na!"

Liu Yongshun nunched his mouth: "so many people look at my home broken foot thing."

(A villager took a picture of his cell phone and many came to watch the fairing.)

Lu Xianfeng is the village of 80, she did not believe the remote control of technology, the network collected a lot of fairing information, she is most concerned about their own three-story house can withstand the impact of the fairing, "Later, we Not live on the third floor. "She did not know, if it was hit by the iron knots drop from the sky, to find who to ask. However, Lu Xianfeng has a little envy Liu Yongshun got two thousand, if the fairing smashed in the abandoned old tea factory, may be able to pay more money.

Rocket wreck is not unique to China's residents. "This is a worldwide technology challenge," said Mao Xinhua, a space engineering doctor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who told the "rear window."

In 2011, a meridian satellite was launched from the Plesetsk base in northwestern Russia. Its wreck happened to hit a private house just after the fall. Fortunately, no casualties were caused at that time, and the crashes were considered by netizens as life Because the name of the street where the houses are located is called "Astronaut Avenue."

But not every fall, are accompanied by luck.

In the summer of 1998, a satellite successfully launched from Xichang. However, a large palm-sized wreck that had fallen off half a head of a 16-year-old girl in Suining County, Hunan Province. She was buried on a hill far away to prevent her The mother is sad. Her family received a national compensation. Years later, in the coverage of the local television station, the wreckage of the rocket "has never had any casualties" in the county.

Satellite Launch Center features and debris areas are relatively fixed. Xichang Satellite Launch Center of the landing area in western Guizhou and western Hunan, Jiuquan in Yulin, Shaanxi, Wenchang the most ideal area, whether the rocket from west to east, or from north to south, the landing area are in the South China Sea, but Wenchang Satellite Launch Center Construction was not started until 2009 and only started to be used in recent years.

Ideally, the wreckage should fall into no-man's land, such as the desert or the ocean. The United States space launch site was built by the sea and the landing area is at sea; the main launch site for ESA is located near the equator, French Guiana to the east and the landing area is also very desirable.

However, because of the different national conditions in various countries, the population density in eastern China is apparently to be circumvented. The establishment of launching bases along the coast requires adequate homeland security. As one of the countries with the most neighboring countries, the wreckage of Chinese rocket crashes into other countries can cause potential diplomatic and military risks.

After learning of these situations, Lu Xianfeng, who was holding a child at the roasted fire table, told the "rear window" that "after all, it is better for me to speak." She thought again for a moment and said, "Actually, we are not too scared of adults. Now it is hard to get a house on the lot. "She pointed to the doorway and the village house next to the national highway was close, and her new tea plant squeezed in between the two houses.

According to the regulations, during the implementation of the rocket mission, relevant departments set up no-fly zones in the air and will also give early warning and evacuation on the ground. When the wreckage is found, the local government departments and garrisons will go to collect and handle them. But at least at Enshi's four fairing landed spots, villagers said they had not been evacuated before. A lieutenant colonel in Enshi City People's Armed Forces told the "rear window" that there were indeed notices to all levels of government before the launch of the satellite. However, afterwards, they never reclaim the fairing to the countryside. A party member at the Enshi Mufu office refused to interview on the basis of lack of information. Three years ago, a cowling crashed into the former Shan Village in the area.

For those who have not received the notice, the villagers seem reasonable, "Since it will certainly fall, the notice will actually make everyone afraid."

( Looks from the door to the fairing at Ouchangwen. )

Aftermath

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After the fall, there came an endless stream of people who came to Nanmu Park to see the fairings, but in just one week, they lost their enthusiasm. Now, there is still a piece of sweet potato that still remains in front of the Ouchang Manchurian. Only the footprints of the strange villagers coming from all directions have been added around them.

A year later, Deng Jiamin's backyard still lying huge piece of fairing, which weighs two tons, which can park two off-road vehicles. Two months ago, Deng Jiamin's mother walked after dinner and met the village cadres. When asked about the time when the fairing was withdrawn and when it was compensated, she was told that everything was still going on.

Deng was impatient with this fairing, and for more than a year the wind and the sun did not rust at all. Reciprocators who passed by Deng, "the material is really good, but not close."

They plan to build a new sty with this iron guy who smashed the pigsty.

The fairing is a sophisticated high-end composite that protects the satellites from rockets and rocket launches to overcome the atmosphere and gravity. Dr. Mao Xinyan told the "rear window" that the cost of the fairing in Europe and the United States is relatively high, while that of China is relatively low, with the cost of the backyard like Deng Jiamin's home being over 10 million yuan. If it were to be changed into a pig sty, Mao would like to think it was certainly the most solid pig sty in the world.

Deng Jiamin was able to lead a peaceful life after this unlucky attack. However, Liu Jinxuan's son-in-law told him that the probability of our crashes is not lower than elsewhere and son-in-law is a math teacher.

Deng Jiamin vowed to say good life and then took a look glasses, "Oh, you say so I am scared!"

The fairing landed exactly on the path of intercommunication between the village and the villagers. Originally, the vegetable fields were now occupied. Their neighbors took the vegetables to the eaves and opened cauliflower.

The boy, who had been scared to cry for a night more than a year later, now has a few words to say. He loves adults to put him on the fairing. He jumps and says, "Boat, Boat."

Liu Jinxuan's son-in-law also collected a copy of Enshi Evening News. There was a picture of him standing in the fairing in the newspaper. Everyone found it quite meaningful. Otherwise, could ordinary people have the chance to go to newspapers?

( Deng Jia Min holding nephew, the children always want to climb into the fairing, he said it was "boat.")

Rocket debris falling threat to ordinary people is not without a turning point. As early as the 1950s, there were rocket experts who suggested Wenchang, a more desirable site-selection area, be a launch center, but it needed a mighty naval fleet to escort it when the conditions were not available. In recent years, the rise of the aircraft carrier group, so Wenchang began to ease part of the function of Taiyuan. In 2015, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted 5 launches, four times in 2016 and twice in 2017.

At 12 noon on December 13, 2017, the Fenghun III satellites just passed over Beijing. It is the moment when it is closest to the ground in a global one-week trip. It will clearly collect the current weather information in China and return it to the ground.

From the perspective of satellite imagery, Enshi in the southwestern corner of Hubei Province is a small spot that can not be seen clearly. The nanmuyuan village of Basho Township is so small that Ouchangwen's family is there.

An hour later, Ou Wenwen received the weather information, windy afternoon, he canceled the plan of burning straw.

He did not know that the satellites that provided daily weather forecasts to themselves were just around the corner.

The "Storm 3" satellite played an irreplaceable role in the Beijing Olympic Games, the 60th anniversary of the National Day, the Zhouqu rainstorm and mud-rock disaster, the Shanghai World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games. In the next five years, China plans to launch another four "Fengyun III" satellites.

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